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SANTO AGOSTINHO (Fr. Joaquim de), E.A. DICCIONARIO Critico da Antiga Linguagem Portugueza. S.l. S.d. [fins do séc. XVIII - início do séc. XIX]. - SANTO AGOSTINHO (Fr. Joaquim de), E.A. DICCIONARIO Critico da Antiga Linguagem Portugueza . E seus principais accidentes. Accrescem todos os nomes das antigas Moedas do Reino, e Conquistas, com seus respectivos valores, e mudanças; os nomes antigos de Homens, Mulheres, Dignidades, Officios, Cidades, Povoações, Rios; Notas numeraes; Abbreviaturas; e outras muitas coizas importantes para intelligencia da nossa Linguagem nas suas primeiras Idades, com Notas Criticas, e breves Dissertações: extrahido tudo de Mss. fidelissimos, Aa. Classicos, e melhores Criticos, com Indices exactos dos Mss. Archivos, Aa. Criticos, etc., e precedido de um Novo Methodo da Grammatica Portugueza, e de um Discurso Historico-Philologico-Critico sobre a mesma Lingua. S.l., S.d. [fins do séc. XVIII - início do séc. XIX]. manuscrito sobre papel; 4 v.; 240 mm. A critical dictionary of the old Portuguese language, in four volumes, covering the entire alphabet from A to Z, preceded by a short grammatical treatise (”Novo Methodo da Grammatica Portugueza”) and a historical-philological-critical discourse on the Portuguese language, with a prologue on the mutable nature of languages. This work is attributed to Father Fr. Joaquim de Santo Agostinho de Brito França Galvão (Tavira, 1767 - Lustosa, 1845), a hermit of the Order of Saint Augustine, one of the first full members of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, where he distinguished himself as a historian, philologist, and polemicist. Between 1789 and 1794, he was tasked with inspecting and cataloging the royal archives of the Algarve, Beja, the Monastery of Alcobaça, and São Vicente de Fora. Among other academic memoirs, he is the author of a ”Memoir on the Coins of the Kingdom and Conquests” (1792) – a subject that the very title page of this dictionary explicitly announces, promising to record the names of the ancient coins of the Kingdom and the Conquests, with their respective values and changes. No reference to this dictionary was found in the author's known bibliography, therefore, if the attribution is confirmed, it will be an unpublished manuscript and not documented in the current bibliography on Fr. Joaquim de Santo Agostinho. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate